Who hasn’t felt that familiar terror when IT mentions a new “upgrade” or “deployment?” Typical User Response – “I understand how to work my computer, I know how to use it to get my job done, why fix what isn’t broken?” Typical CEO Response- “We JUST bought the latest version of Office/windows/CRM… [...]

WinRT / Windows Runtime is a software layer that sits on top of the OS, for devices using processors based on the ARM architecture and instruction set and that is at the base of the new Metro design language approach. It’s primarily a set of APIs to build Metro apps for all Metro-supported platforms (including for Windows 8 for ARM). [...]

The Microsoft Windows Azure cloud compute service was unavailable to many users in Europe for 2.5 hours on Thursday, starting at 11:09 a.m. Greenwich Mean Time. The cloud compute service in the West Europe region is provided by Azure servers in Microsoft’s Dublin, Ireland, data center and in an Amsterdam facility. Azure storage services continued [...]

This is a great news for everyone who is using Microsoft Office 365, the price of the Microsoft cloud services are dropping! Microsoft has slashes the prices for the Enterprise Suite of Microsoft Office 365. The E1 plan which was $10 per user per month is now $8 per user; the E3 plan which [...]

It feels like 20 years ago all over again when I used to read about Microsoft antitrust hearings in the newspaper. The recent news is that Microsoft is the most despised software company. This is according to research from Amplicate, a company that tracks what people say online. We were skeptical so we Binged the company and it seems legit. Then to be fair I used Google and got similar results.